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Roleplay / Re: RPM-Adventure!
« on: August 26, 2014, 02:36:49 AM »
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Maybe Pyro was the one who buggy-jacked the Amish. He was trying to get their pants!
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So, he believes that disabled people are liabilities and burdens? Regardless of the actual nature of their disability? That cracking under pressure only happens to disabled people and "normal" people won't ever suffer a breakdown in the face of the zombie apocalypse?
Here's the thing about people; people are unpredictable. If the world went to hell in a hand basket, I can assure you that even the most well-adjusted non-disabled person is going to crack. They are going to shut themselves away and hope to wait out the apocalypse. Why? Because it's easy and it's safe. Just hole up somewhere and hope nothing happens to you.
The most well-adjusted person on the team can very quickly become as much as a "burden" and "liability" as any disabled person due to the sole fact that by nature, humans are unpredictable creatures who cannot handle stress very well. When the [parasitic bomb] hits the fan, you can't be certain what anyone will do.
But, that article is not concerned with the "environment." It's concerned with how the casual fanbase and even the creative team has treated a disabled character. Apparently, one of the members has a history of misogynist behavior, and his ableist treatment of the character only further cements it. While this is poor treatment of a fictional character, it can have real-life ramifications. Real people in times of stress or disaster could be treated with the same ableist attitude because people believe that "they are a liability."
Hopefully he's not gone on too long. I miss that guy.